Chapter Four

Disclaimer: I formerly acknowledge the fact that Joss Whedon created anything and everything regarding characters, places, mythology, and whatnot contained within this

Author's Note: This is bordering on being one of the worst things I wrote ...Just to give a warning...But I was helpless!

"Xander!" Anya repeated her former fiance's name with panic. "They're coming closer," she whispered in fear. "What are we supposed to do?"

"Um," Xander began, his face growing white in the fear of Anya and Joseph's safety. "Go back into his crypt?" he suggested weakly.

"Xander, they're vampires. They could get in," Anya reminded him with a frown.

"You have a better idea?" Xander asked as the two of them ran inside, Anya clutching Joseph tightly as not to drop him.

Anya sighed heavily as she slumped against the door in effort to keep the vampires out. Since they knew there were creatures with blood there was no way they would not be coming inside. It would only be a matter of time. "Now what?" Anya asked.

Xander bent down picking up the crying baby from Anya's thin arms and kissing her lightly on the lips. "Now you teleport over to Buffy's and get her and Spike here."

"But what about him?" Anya asked, looking down at Joseph.

"I won't let anything happen to him, I swear," Xander promised. "Now go before we're all dead!"

Anya nodded and before Xander could blink another eye he was gone and he was left alone to keep the vampires from entering Spike's crypt.

"Mm," Buffy said happily from her position beside Spike in her bed. She gave a happy sigh as she placed her head against Spike's bare chest. "This is nice."

Spike nodded in agreement as he wrapped one arm around the Slayer's petite body. "You really know what you're doing, Slayer," he said as he kissed her passionately.

Instead of kissing her boyfriend back, Buffy gasped, immediately pulling herself away from the vampire and pulling the blanket up to her neck. "Anya, what the hell are you doing here and how did you get here?"

"I teleported," the vengeance demon pointed out with a sigh. "Demons do that."

"Ok," Buffy began, "that explains the how, but the why is more important."

"Because there is a group of vampires over at Spike's place and Xander and I can't hold them off," Anya explained quickly.

"I thought you two were going to see yourselves out," Spike pointed out with a groan.

"Sorry, Spike, but our son got hungry, again," Anya yelled. "I couldn't get him back to my apartment without him whimpering the whole way home."

"You teleported yourself I here alright," Buffy pointed out crossly.

"Yes, but I can't take anyone with me, it's the rules," Anya reminded the Slayer. "Look, Xander and Joseph are in trouble, so please. Will you help?"

Buffy nodded. "Sure," she said. "Just let us change and we'll be over as soon as possible."

Anya nodded as she once again teleported away.

"Xander!" she called out as she walked through the crypt. "Xander Harris, this isn't funny!" she yelled. The vampires were still waiting outside the crypt for some reason unknown to her, but she did not care about that. Buffy and Spike could kill the bad guys, she could feed the baby. That was the way things were supposed to work.

"Xander!" she yelled once again as she walked over. Perhaps he had gone down to whatever was beneath. Anya herself was not sure of what Spike kept down there, but if she were being trapped in a place by vampires, then that would be where she would go. She drew in a breath as she teleported to the other side.

"Xander, thank god!" she yelled as she ran into his open arms. "Where's Joseph?" she asked in fear.

"Right here," Xander said as he motioned at Spike's bed. "Sleeping," he added although he knew that Anya could see that. "And Buffy and Spike?" he asked.

"Are on their way," Anya said as she walked over and sat down next to her son.

Spike sighed, quickly approaching his crypt. He stopped, standing there in shock as he saw the vampires waiting patiently outside. "What the bloody hell is going on here?" he asked curiously.

"Oh, there you are," the biggest vampire announced as he turned to face Spike. "Nothing much. We're just here for the forty Siamese you owe...still."